Amosun: my govt committed to workers’ welfare

Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has said his administration paid more attention to serving and retired workers than any other past administration in the state.

The governor stated this at an interactive session with stakeholders during a town hall meeting on next year’s budget at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, the state capital.

He noted that while the immediate past government in the state paid N3.9 billion as monthly workers’ salary, his administration pays between N8 billion and N9 billion monthly while retired permanent secretaries earn a monthly pension of N400,000, compared to the previous N40,000 they were collecting.

Amosun said some pensioners were collecting N200 monthly pension, adding that with the regularisation of his administration, the least paid pensioner gets N5,000 monthly.

He said: “We have upgraded the monthly pension of our former workers to N5,000. Some of them were collecting as low as N200 and N300 monthly before. So, the lowest take-home for any pensioner now is N5,000.”

The Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Alhaji Bashir Ashiru, hailed the state government for being good to pensioners.

A statement by Gbemisola Akanbi of the Ministry of Finance said the event was attended by stakeholders from the formal and informal sectors.

Also, Amosun reassured the people that his administration would accelerate work on road projects that have been awarded as soon as the rains subside.